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From July to September, Jacobs raised $216,115 to Albracht’s $110,311, according to campaign finance reports filed with the state Board of Elections. Their 36th District includes much of Whiteside County.

Both candidates have received sizable donations after they filed their last reports.

In recent days, Albracht, a Vietnam veteran and a former Secret Service agent, got more than $175,000 from the Republican State Senate Campaign Committee.

Around the same time, Jacobs received a $41,670 in-kind contribution for “production and postage” from the Illinois Democratic Party. In recent weeks, the state party has sent at least five glossy mailers attacking Albracht on such issues as Medicaid.

From July to September, nearly a third of Jacobs’ donations came from unions, including $17,000 from AFSCME, a public employees union.

Last week, AFSCME gave Jacobs an additional $20,000.

The senator also got $10,000 from Exelon, the parent company of ComEd, and $8,500 from Ameren, the electric utility for much of the southern half of the state.

Jacobs, whose father has been a lobbyist for ComEd, successfully sponsored a bill last year to increase the utilities’ rates to pay for improvements to the power grid that would reduce the number of outages.

In an interview, Jacobs said Albracht didn’t have much support beyond the Republican State Senate Campaign Committee.